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Helping verb Subject Main verb

Will you sleep?

Will they sleep?

2. For information questions

Question word * Helping verb Subject Main verb

Wh will I sing?

Wh will you sing?

Wh will he/she/it sing?

Wh will we sing?

Wh will you sing?

Wh will they sing?

* Question words are when, why, how, what, who and where.

We sometimes use the be going to form to talk about the future.

Uses

We sometimes use be going to

1. to express a future event that has already been planned. For example,

y I am going to prepare for the exam.

y They are going to visit us again next month.

2. to make predictions. For example,

y Rita is going to win the quiz.
y The children are going to hurt themselves.

3. We use be going to + verb to talk about actions that are planned and will definitely
happen. For example,

y Savithri is going to start college next June.

y Diane is going to start work next week.

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